Julia Rae Maldonado is a Bronx based actor & writer for stage and screen from San Antonio, Texas. Her work has been developed & produced in NYC by companies including Theatre East (Muses), LAByrinth Theatre and internationally (MUT! Theatre, Hamburg & Interkultural Festival, Stuttgart). She was a 2024 finalist for the Judith Royer Award in Playwriting (Muses), a 2021 finalist in the Samuel French OOB Festival (Juntos), and a 2017 finalist for Actor Theatre Louisville’s Heideman Award (Buskers!); Her play Real Life is published in Gary Garrison’s A (More) Perfect 10 & A Younger 10. Julia is a founding member of the GirlSOUP Collective and currently a faculty member at the Actors Studio Drama School & the Director of New Works Development with Theatre East. Member of the Dramatist Guild. BFA- NYU, Tisch, MFA - Actors Studio Drama School.

For more on her film work & acting, check out girlsoup .